单词 | bad conscience |
释义 | > as lemmasbad (also evil, ill) conscience c. good conscience: (a) a consciousness of acting or having acted rightly, or of being virtuous; †(b) a conscience which makes correct judgements (obsolete). Similarly by contrast bad (also evil, ill) conscience.See also to make shipwreck of a good conscience at shipwreck n. Phrases c(a). ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > [noun] > consciousness of rectitude good conscience?c1430 ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 228 (MED) Cristene men schullen haue so good conscience..þat enemys of oure feiþ þat bakbiten or myspeken of vs ben confounded. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxxxviii. §13. 321 Thabor..and hermon..in þi name ihesu sall glade thorgh goed consyence. 1524 Will of William Burwell (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/21) f. 143 Persones of right or of good conscience. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 9 I wil do as men of best consciences do. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 6 This seemeth to argue a bad cause, or a bad conscience, or both. 1625 C. Burges New Discouery Personal Tithes 24 A good conscience..will sooner suspect his owne heart of couetousnesse, then his Pastors. 1631 T. Powell Tom of All Trades 161 There is no coward to an ill conscience. 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions i. ii. 24 A good conscience therefore will tell you that if..you have made a prey of him..you are bound to make restitution. a1665 W. Guthrie Heads of Serm. preached at Finnick (1680) ii. i. 44 Hells terror shall seize upon him,..the worm of an ill conscience rugging at his heart, and intrals of him. 1703 L. Smith Evid. Things not Seen (ed. 2) 14 For to say that these guilty Fears and Accusations of a bad Conscience, or comfortable Excusings and Acquitments of a good one,..owe their rise to custom of Belief and the prepossessions of Education,..is a precarious Assertion. 1744 J. Harris Three Treat. iii. ii. 200 What is that Comfort of a Good Conscience? 1750 T. Palmer Serious Addr. Unbaptized Christians 72 Their hearts are..Rantized or Sprinkled from an evil conscience by the blood of Christ. 1770 Oxf. Mag. Sept. 92/2 It was thus that Brutus's evil mind created his evil genius: the workings of an ill conscience was the spectre in his mind. a1820 J. Lathrop Sermons (1821) New Ser. xviii. 179 To enquire into the causes and springs of an erroneous and evil conscience. a1847 N. W. Fiske in D. D. Humphrey Memoir (1850) 190 Is he sure, that he did it with a good conscience? Perhaps it was with a very bad conscience, with an utterly dark and perverted conscience. 1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (2003) 88 Ah, it's an ill conscience that's such an enemy to rest! 1922 G. S. Fullerton Handbk. Ethical Theory viii. xxxii. 312 It is as much a duty to have a good conscience as it is to obey the conscience one has. 1963 M. L. King Strength to Love xvi. 131 You cannot in good conscience sell your birthright of freedom for a mess of segregated pottage. 2003 G. Walker Crime, Gender & Social Order in Early Mod. Eng. iv. 127 Whether born of compassion, ill-conscience or duty, the impact of such actions was uncertain, as Cholmondley was aware. < as lemmas |
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